The Sun. — London, England, 1826-10-04 00:00:00

or THE MIMIC .TOMNAtS. • Mr. Whit More's pamphlet, on which we made some observations yesterday, coutaiu a large portion of useful matter for reflection, mune especially to the • ikfrieulturA interest, the members of which it appears to have been a leading object with the ituthor to en• lighten, and at least to neutralize, if he could not fully convert them. " Whether, says Mr. Whitmore, ".I understand my own interest or not, I will not de ' cide ; but as a . landed proprietor, I hesitate not to that it is not advanced by high prices, when, with those high p r i ces , a prin ci pl e o f fluctuation is introduced.' It is not merely that high price brings with, it an increase in the cost of every article cif con tiumption,—which of itself constitutes an important feature in this question,—but that the accident of high rice cannot be secured for a series of years, nor, Indeed, for a second harvest. What then follows? A fall of price, and with it a complete tumble .of•the agriculturists from the various • pinnacles of hope or enjoyment on which they had perched themselves in the more prosperous seaon. rhe - tel ! ant cannot make up' his rent, nor the landlord'discharge his tradesmen's Abatements of rent must be agreed to---short of the necessity—because granted with repugnance by the landlord, and unequal to relieve the tenant from the pressure of " engagements already contracted." So that a long course of adversity is almost sure to result. -• • high prices foster high hopes, and stimulate hazardous • agricultural speculations. Low prices discourage all .hope, and ruin the speculator's who have acted on them. Fresh bargains are then made for land, under this in . ordinate depression of price and spirit, as far below the real value oflanded property, as a few years before they were above it. A bargain made between two finer- chants for goods usually terminates in a single ;trans action, and affects only the disposition of one lot or Cargo of merchandise whereas an agreement for land extends of necessity to a series of years, and in a state of the law which produces extraordinary fluctuations in the value of agricraitural produce, amounts in fact to a • system of gataing the most dangerous, because the least amenai d ie to rational calculation. On the ten d,ency of a corn monopoly to the establishment o f a mo nopoly in other articles, and on the multiplied inis ctuels proceeding from all such unjust preferences, Mr. Whitmore makes time following sound and powerful observations : " A monopoly in corn leads . to monopolies in other etticles'; it is the plea always used in favour of restrictions upon commerce, and it is conunonly urged successfully. When the majority of the legislators are monopolists, they cannot but look with a favourable eye on the monopoly, system; every increase of that leads to an accession of allies to their darling portion of it ; indeed, they who maintain reetrictisne upon one branch of comment to be a la. Copal benefit, can ;hardly, with any riemblenice of consistency, deny that it is equally beneficial when applied, to other objects.— Crime begets erbium; no lese sure does monopoly create monopoly. Monopoly, I again repeat, derives its advantage solely from the nation wherein it exists ; 5 to be of any value: it must rob Peter to pey Paul, and both Peter and Paul reside in the same country.— 'l,fere, again, it is not a simple transfer; the common effect of monopoly is to deaden exertion, not t o st i mu l ate to greater effort.' Peter is robbed, not that Paul may he more rich, but more idle— or that he way waste his strength in producing that which might he Purchased much better awl cheaper from borne one else. Thus it is that all numnPhead i .:.nitrish national wealth, but they also prre mice a. more permante,. 4 „ff eet b y retarding the accumulation of capital s" it. is in that. accumulation that national wealth consists. None produce th!4 effect more than the monopoly in corn ; it raises the Pelee' ~(labour, and diminishes profits from whence such seem wlalstion proceeds. But neither is flue all the evil : if profits tre redtWed at, hems by a high price of cone in vain will you at rempt to prevent capital seeking for itself a more beneficial em., ployment elsewhere. The difficulty of transferring it from one part of the world to another is not greet, and private interest is too sharp-sighted to be long blind to its own advantage. This is a fearful consideration, The wealth, the power, the credit of the country, are all at issue. in such a case; and to no interest is this of such momentous import as to the agriculturist. Land has `no wiega, as riches have, wherewith to fly to ether regions; it must remain and await whatever of weal or woe betides the na - than. 'The possibility, too, of preserving high prices is clearly contingent upon the poseession .of capital employing a large popuiation ; thence proceeds the demand, and without time demand, we know well, price rennet be raised. It were an act little sliOrk of insanity to run any risk upon this subject. Neither is it a simple but a compommil inducement we bold out' to capitalists to seek employmneut elsewhere; in pro portion 41 our price is raised by the exclusion of foreign corn, we diminish its cost to .foreigners. Great Britain is in this, as in all other things relating to commerce, the grand regulator of the world ; if her markets are open to foreign eerie ifs trice is generally reined,---if closed, it falls as generally, and that is, in a great measure, the secret of the very low prices abroad, • at which time agricultural. interest is so much alarmed. What is the result of this? why, that foreign manufactures are established in eompetitien with our own,—that ships are built by fereigeers, and Manned and victualled by foreigners, to the exclu lion of those of British build. The ship-owners complain loudly of this .; they, as usual, cry out against theories, against in novation. 'they inVoke the ,pirit of the old navigation laws, and conceive that to the changes which have taken place in them their distress is to be ettributed r e e ciumges positively forced upon us, and without which we should have exposed our commercial marine to infinitely greater harard—but they omit to remark, that, with such a syste m of corn ; e we as ours, their interest must be One of the heat to safer. The trade of ahipebuilder derives little or no benefit from machinery, which counteracts fore time the effect of cheap labour,--all with them is manual labour and food. Let us take warning by the effect we have produced in this inte rest : deservedly one of the most cherished by Englishmen, be cause ministering to our must constitutional and most efficient act of power. Other interests will soon suffer equally,—with English capital and English skill, English machinery can soon be erected in the United States of America, or Germany, or ,Poland, and then, ssibeir perhaps it is too late, we shall awake from bur fit of obstinate blindness and torpor, but awake only to contemplate the peril of our situation, and the advantages we have so wantonly thrown 'away." It is impossible, within our limits, that we should -accompany Mr. Whitinore through all the details 'of fact, arrnent and illustration with which he has his Isork. The case against the existing corn-laws, .we lick! to be complete and unassailable.— Their injustice to the bulk' of the coniumunity—their inefficaoy as a protection to the landed interest—nay, their destructive teralency to both branches of which that interest is composed —and the utter ground lessness of those alarms which have: been excited by the prospect of a regulated trade in corn, these did not require, in the minds of impartial and reflecting men, such vigorous testimony to their truth and importance its is afforded by the pages of Mr. Whitmore. The honourable Gentlemun,Trowever, in his suggestions for a cure, admits some heresies which to accede, to. Its schem e o f we feet' it impossible ice involves the revi - graduated duties, for instal ace, or continuance rather, of the ii w it . o h l ( e , ra i b i,i,is le , whaytsetiTe,:i its averages- --whirls ally person, progress and operation, must deprecate as an evil more perhaps than commen sur ate to that which it affects to remedy. A freetrade, with a low duty, —that ought to be the 0 • f every active mind lc the- kingdom, a nd until we have achieved it, there wit. be'nothing solid in our financial or commercial state While we are on this subject of a free trade iu corn Ministers it may be as well to record our hope that will not infli c t u p on , the law by which its free( o in professes to be guaranteed, - the Sallie species 4 para ding for lysis,' which other Acts of' provi 4 'The eseeptunui to this doctrine are few in number, con. sisting chiefly of productS, which, like certain wines, are in high request, and tan he grown only in particular situations. lan notaware that any of the products of Great Britain come withii this exception. liberty of commerce with roreign nations, have suffered from orders in Council and' Treasury regulations, frit tering away whatever is:most definite and wholesome in the acts of the Legislature itself. Some such inter, ference has displayed itself in the practical arrange meats of the trade ; and as for the recent order, by which all intercourse between our West Indian Colonies and the. United States of America has been deliberately broken up, we have only to expreis our anxious hope that nothing more may arise from it than diplomatic fencing or asperitp—Times. We have repeatedly called the attention of our readers to the abuses and cruelties which are practised with impunity, both in public and private mad-houses. -Certain persons--those probably who profit by these abuses, or some of their friends, would persuade the public that the greater part of these are without foun dation, and have been fabricated by madmen or worth less servants. They represent the utter improbability of such wanton cruelty as has been ascribed to sonic, and particularly to the nearest relations of the persons confined, and seem to think it impossible that such a system could exist for a moment, while all those asylums have visiting physicians or surgeons, and are under the 'superint e nd ence o f t h e C o ll ege o f Physicians. Experience, however, proves that actions which would appear to some improbable, are frequently practiced, and that a public body, like that of the College of Physicians, is not a sufficient safeguard against the villainy of interested individu a l s . file investigation which took place at Liverpool last year Showed that abuses could creep into establishments of this kind, notwithstanding all the laws and regulations made against them ; and the numerous private letters which we received on the occasion, from individuals who had either suffered from the wickedness of their frisends, or who had witnessed the sufferings of others, left no doubt in' our minds that great abuses did exist, and that the chief cause of their concealment arose from the mysterious manner in which these establishments are conducted, and the absolute ignorance of the pub lic regarding the real state of the inmates. The inves tigations which have taken place at a Police-office will open the eyes of those who were blind to such abuses, and stop the mouths of the interested few who advocate the excellence of the present system. The plot appears to have taken its rise from in terested motives, as plots of this kind generally do, and to have been conducted in a manner calculated to lull the suspicions of the most in credulous. A female is chosen as the victim. Her husband—the person whom every one would sup pose interested in her welfare, procures the as sistance of two or three mad-house-keepers, who sur prise her in her own house, bind her as a lunatic, and hurry her off to a private asylum, where she is confined among lunatics for the night. The integrity of the keeper alone led to the disclosure.. We are only surprised that she should have been admitted at all Rho a house kept by a gentleman of this descrip tion. No person, we believe, can be legally confined in a lunatic asylum without an order from a Magis trate, founded on the opinion of a physician or surgeon; yet it appears that she w a s not only admitted here, but confined till next day without inquiry. Such treat ment might have driven ,persons of a nervous and irritable temperament to madness, and the interference of the keeper afterwards would have been without avail. It is probable, indeed, that the attempt . is generally made on persons of this description, and that the success of the plot screens the actors from pu nishment. But even without admitting this to be the case, and supposing the keeper would have accepted a bribe, we can hardly see what, security an unprotected female of the soundest inteWcts can have against such a conspiracy, so long as the public are excluded from all knowledge of the internal management of these places. She is carried off, perhaps, by her nearest re lative ; sha is guarded by mad-house-keepers, and, in such circumstances, the inure earnest and . violent her cries and entreaties in passing along the streets, the niore she would convince those to whom she appealed that she was in the state represented, and when once immured in such a place, wetly weeks and months, and even years, might elaPse, before the visit ing physician discovered her, or accident brought friends to her. relief.. We are far from regarding this occasional visit of the physician as a security against abuse ; and we sincerely hope that some other checks will be provided against it. The present investigation, and the trials which will probably follow, will, no donbt, have beneficial results. It is a subject that interests the public at large, and that requires strict investigation. We have made these remarks without any fastidious scruples about prejudging the question or influencing, the minds of Jurymen, because wa are convinced that the more it is discussed, and the better they are acquainted with the real state of facts previous to the trial, the more likely will they be to return a just verdict.--Morning Herald. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE.—Yesterday Mr. Alley attended, with witnesses in Mr. Wilkes case, to identify the parties who entered the house in 'import of Mr. Verheke's claim. The witnesses were re-examined. One of Mr.' Wilks's agents was exceedingly diligent in prompting the principal witness, for which the Lord Mayor reprehended him. . . Mr. Allay examined the servant-girl, with the view of showing that Dr. Mitchell was concerned in supporting the parties who obtained possession. After anxious inquiry, to connect the doctor with them, all that could be obtained was, a statement that he bad, on the morning after possession was obtained, spoken through the window to the parties in the house.' The LORD Mayon rejected the charge as against the. Doctor. He said, Mr. Verbeke was at that time in peaceable possession, and any one might speak to those who had, at least, a colourable right. He should hold no one to bail except those who were en gaged in taking possession of the premises. His Lordship, in dismissing the case, observed, that as Oliver Cromwell said of " Sir Harry Vane," he would say, " Meows. Wilk' and Verbeke, Messrs. Wilke anti Verbeke, the Lord deliver me from MessrA. Was and Verbeke."—(Laughter.) Mr. Verbeke was not in the Justice-room at the time, and Mr. Alley said, he should not wait, to oppose bail. Mr. Verbeke came in soon after, and the bail was given. lie said, that what ever Opinions, might be formed, he should not quit the security he had on the premises. The charge of riot was, he said, ridiculous. ilk could be applicable to any one, it was to :ferein.:itiwksn'smowert: comeservants.in. Possession was obtained peac eabl y . Ten ;annuli after, the servant girl began to scream out , on 4 4 1414 lose her lace, for lettiSnhgetheexmclaiiiim,"edand " that went s to a (low anti tzllectepd a crowd. lie should be ready to pro ve thehe w then in. ,that six o r ei or seven men were in r ea di ne s s , but for the apprehen ,btai of tu useof he arms, to r et a k e b y f orce th a t which had beez , Boa peaceably. , The aceountai T in the repetiti on , t ,r a all parts of the country concur viving trade and extveri favourable statements of a m jrass„. soinew el:( jug employment for the work ingalone wanted to g i ve ;i t Wakefield L ak e e e , d e s . , 'i'l►ese extension to the Indus of ►Wore co►ifidenee appears try of the countri. adviees include the towns 0 i Manchester, I lackh Urn _Huddersfield, Brad ford, Macclesfield, and to n ha l v d e ; t in all an obvious it is considered as likely to be per ;emprovement is admitted taken place, and matient.—Striffordshire Advertiser. though not rapid, FlN'SliurtY CITA.PEL. This Chapel, which is building for the reception of the Rev. Alexander Fletcher, is now so nearly completed, that Mil. F. an nounced from his pulpit on Sunday, that in all probability they would be able to begin the public worship there in six weeks from 'that time; and that on Monday evening the first Meeting should take place in Finsbury Chapel, for the letting of the seats or pews. Accordingly the doors were open that evening from six till nine o'clock, for that purpose. A great number of people attended, and made their choice of sittings ; shareholders of, and donors to the chapel, having had the preference of chosing their situations. The chapel is probably the handsomest building, ex ternally and internally, of any dissenting place of worship in London. MEDICAL. Mr. ArtintoEtnt read his introductory Lecture on Monday to his winter course of Anatomical Lectures. It having been sup posed that he would not lecture again, he was most enthusiasti cally received by an immense number of students. In the course of this lecture, he : lamented that the public mind wag so incensed 'against dissecting. The disinterthent of bodies was certainly an outrage against society ; and this, at one time, he would not have acknowledged; hut that outrage was alone made by the publicity that Wu given to the act. The act itself could do no harm, if not made public, In Paris, in London, and in every thickly populated place, there were, unfortunately per• eons who died without a relative or friend to close their eyes ; in the former p l ace , all such perstu.s were sewed up in a matting, and sent to the hospitals for dissection, after which they were again sewed up, and returned for interment ;. and if the Governors and Managers of poor houses, and certain public asylums in this town, could be perstuuled to let the same practice be adopted here, much of the offence complained of would be - done away with, and great good would be the re sult. When, in the course of last war, a man was convicted of raising a body, a Member of Parliament was induced to !Jay, he would bring in a bill to Make the net felonious. On that occasion he (Mr. A.) and several of the first medical men in town had audience repeatedly with that Member, and with various other personage of the greatest wealth, the most enlightened minds, of the best talents, and of the highest rank in this kingdom,--when it was • stated, that an immense number of young men were • then just • going to he sent abroad to join different regiments; and unless those individuals had the previous opportunity of dissecting and of learning what man was, Government would only send them out to 'torture, to mutilate, and to kill their valiant country men ; and besides this, that there were annually upwards of two hundred young men, who came from the country to London, to get such a stock of knowledge as that they were to carry with them for life into society, which, with that knowledge, they were either to benefit or injure. The result of all these conferences, therefore, was, that anatomy mtact be taught;' and Mr. A. had great reason to believe that society would, by and by, view this subject as he did, for he had the utmost reliance on the good feelings and conduct of a British public. He trusted that Magistrates, and Reporters fur the public papers, would consider the vital injury they would do to themselves and their fellow -creatures, if they persisted in raising every obstacle in their power to the acquiring of that knowledge; without which, sending a man into society as a medical man, he would he the most mischievous weapon imaginable. ACCOUNT of the LATE BURMESE COM -11AN1)ER-IN-CHIEF, MAHA BUNDOOLAII. Mengee Maha Bundoolah was of low extraction, and first distinguished himself in Assam, some years back, which he subdued. He was, by all reports, a very able man for a Burman, and, from his roughly decisive measures, well calculated to keep an army of barbarians in order. His sway over the public mind, and over the King him self, is said to have been most powerful. He knew well how to conciliate, and his own soldiery are said to have been sincerely attached to him : where that tie did not exist, he substituted terror, and never allowed humanity or feeling to interfere with the least of his arrangements. An instance in point occurred when our flotilla► was pas sing up under the tire of Donabew. The °nicer com manding the artillery in the fort was killed at his gun, and no man would step forward to take his plate. Bundoolah was standing by, and chopped off several beads before he brought his people to a sense of shame, or rather a sense of fear, and re-manned the deserted gun. Peter the Great succeeded in making a gallant army by these means, and why should not Mahn Bundoolah have also in time succeeded ? The death of Bundoolah took place at Donabew, en the Ist of April, 1825. It was occasioned by the explosion of a shell under his cot, which had been placed upon the north-west angle of the stockade, under a matted canopy, for the purpose of enabling him to view the operations of the British force. He . was struck between eight and nine o'clock in the morning, and he expired in a few hours. In the course of the evening the body was taken outside the stockade by his attendants, and con sumed. by fire. The people of Ava, when they heard of his death, were thrown into the greatest eonsternation,and the King is stated to have exclamied, that he had lost half his own body. In giving an account of Bundoolah's last actions, his answer to a summons to surrender should not be omitted. On reaching. Donabew, the naval and military chiefs (Cap tain Alexander and General Cotto9 summoned the place, and Bundoolah sent the following civil, but firm and manly reply : " We are each fighting for his country! and you will find me as steady in defending the liberties of mine, as you are forward in asserting the rights of yours. If you wish to see Donabew, coma as friends, and 1 will show it to you! If you come as enemies, land ! ! These are not the men you were wont to fight and beat ! You will find us ready, and we will See which are the better men ! !" The name of Bundoolah will not soon be forgotten by , the British army employed in Avis, as that of a General who served his Sovereign with zeal and devotion, and whose resistance to our invasion displayed a knowledge of the resources at his command, highly creditable to him as the leader of his country's 'armies. A higher compliment to his military talents cannot be required, than is found in the dispatches of Sir Archibald Campbell ; and it were to be tray a want of that generosity for which the British soldier is distinguished, to suppose that our gallant troops can have seen the full'of such a foe without a feeling of respect for military talent and prowess, which under more fortunate circumstances, and with better materials,might have given the name of Bundoolah a place amongst the foremost heroes of the age.--Dunifries Journal. When Napoleon Buonaparte visited the manufac turing City of Lyons, he asked the Magistracy if he could confer any favour upon the place ; after some time spent, in confer ence , the worthy, and certainly, considerate public functionaries, returned him for an swer, that the greatest benefit he could confer upon the citizens, was t o l eave t h em a lone. Had our Mi nisters profited by such advice, the Silk Trade in this district would now b e a prosperous one ; every thing Legislature could do for the crantpi»g of the manu facture has been done ; but notwithstanding all this, such is the innate enterprise in our English manufac turers, that the Trade cannot be altogether extin guished, and will to a certain extent exist. it is now in a state of progress, though not of aosperity. Ad miring as we, do, cert a i n a cts of his Maiesty's Minis ters, and believin g th at t h ey are actuated b y a S i ncere desire to benefit thenation, we must, nev er th e l ess, nation, be excused in totally differing from them in their policy of commercial regulations. It is not in their power to, remedy the evils their measures have occasioned. The sufferings of respectable families, the pangs of hunger endured by our artizans, and the hope deferred, which makes the heart sick, must occasion them, k' t h e moment of reflection, unpleasant sensations. They can never undo the evil they have brought upon the silk district ; and may perhaps learn, in future, to profit by the advice given by the authorities of Lyons, to the greatest enemy which the trade and commerce of this country ever h a d t o encounter, but whose mea sures were inimical to the trade and commerce of the realm which he governed.—Macclesfield Herald. THE MARKETS. (From the London New Price Current of Tuesday.) SUGA.R.-7The Sugar Market last week was uncommonly heavy, the. daily sales not exceeding 300 hhds. Musco. vales, and generally at a further reduction in the prices; the decline from the . late highest point is about 2s. per cwt.; the good Sugars which sold at 625. selling now at 605.; the brown formerly at 575. now offering about 555. The Market opened heavily this morning, though by a re ference to the lists it will be found the comparative stock in the Warehouse is decreasing. The deliveries from the Warehouses last week are considerably less than in 1825. A t the close of the Market this day the salei of Musco vades were estimated at only 250 hhds. In the Refined Market there was great heavinecs last week, and though the stock is considerable, yet lower prices were accepted, and the reduction of the currency did not facilitate sales to any extent. The Refined Market is exceedingly heavy to-day, and la. per cwt.. lower. Foreign Sugars were no minal last week, on account of the public sales advertised for this day,'---Sugar Sales this forenoon 24 hhds. and 37 barrels Porto Rico ; Muscovades for export, good strong yellow, 295. 6d. a 30s. 6d. ; Bengal 1058 bags fine dry white, 345. and 355. ; Mauritius 302 bags sold . at the short price, on account of no certificate, 245. a 355. The Ben gal Sugars sold Is. a Is. 6d. under the late highest prices. The Mauritius 2s. a 3s. lower, but the latter being sold for export only is no criterion f the Market. HEMP, FLAX, AND TALLOW.—The Tallow Market has been rather heavy, the price yesterday 395. and feW buyers, though the accounts from St. Petersburgh were so very favourable, 3,800 casks sold at 102 rubles; the exchange bad advanced to 9-15 16 or s The delivery of Tal low last week in London, 2,528 casks, about the same quantity as the corresponding week of last year.' The stock is now 30,000 casks less than in 1825. Tallow at a late hour 38s. 9d. COTTON.—The Cotton Market, which was steady on the first of last week, became very animated on Friday on account of the favourable intelligence from Liverpool and Manchester. The chief of the following sales have since taken place, and the advanee , was fully an id. on the pre vious prices. The sales up to last night inclusive are— In bond, 800 Bengals, 4id. a 50.; 150 Surat:, sid. a 51d.; 90. Bowed, bid. a 6/d.; 40 Smyrna, 11d. Duty paid. 60 Caraccas, Sid. 6id.; 2,000 ptian, Id. a 7id.; 80 Barbadocs, Id. .a 9/d. The inquiries continue this morning; about 400 bags have been sold, chiefly Egyptian, at 'lid. COM:E.-The Coffee Market last week was dull and uninteresting. The Jamaica and other British plantation descriptions sold 6d. a Is. lower, particularly the coloury middling descriptions, which have lately rated high. St. Domingo was 60s. There were three public sales this forenoon, consisting of 306 casks 68 bags plantation, and 151 bags Foreign, • the whole went off heavily. The Ja maica description at a further decline of 2s. per cwt., fine middling valued at 925. a 935. sold at 905., good middling valued at 83s. a 84s. sold at 80s. a tells. 6d., nearly fine ordinary valued at 565. a 575. sold at 545., good ordinary rank and mixed 51s. tid., the St. Domingo 152 bags taken in at 50s. 6d. and 495. 6d., for the fine ordinary 50s. was offered and refused. We make Jamaica Coffee 2s, lower, Foreign heavy and a shade lower. OIL.-The Oil market is heavy and lower.. Southern Oil, which had advanced to 38/. sold at public sale at 351. The market afterwards improved, hut so fluctuating, that it has again given way; there is no Greenland Oil at market, nor any recent account from the fisheries, but the. owners of the ships are offering the Oil for arrival about 351.; Spermaceti 61/. and 62/.; Gallipoli giving way 11. to 2/.; Seed Oils are heavy. IRISII PROVISIONS.-We gave the report on Tuesday last of the Provision Contract with Government being taken at 6/. 12a. 6d, per tierce. The following is now be lived to be the more correct statement tra. Navy Beef and 6,000 . tr5. Navy Pork, to be delivered at Dept ford, Ports Mouth, and Plymouth, at 61. 7s. 6d. per tierce all round, which is calculating the Beef at 51: i4 , s, per tierce, and the Pork at 6/. 17s. per tierce, being full 11. 12s. per tierce under last year's prices. As soon as the prices fully transpired, it caused a reduction in prices of present stock full ss. per cask, and before the price of contract could be known, Pigs had fallen in Belfast 10s. per cwt. From the .best sources of information it is fully expected that prices of Cattle and Pigs will be very low. The Potatoe Crop in Ireland is now proved to be much more favourable than could be anticipated, Newfoundland beinf permitted to be supplied from Ilamburgh, which deprives Waterford and Limerick Of a demand of full 2,000 barrels of Pork (and it is an ascertained fact, that before last year, upon an average, near 5,000 barrels Beef were shipped to the West Indies from Dublin, and last year only 500 barrels), present season Provisions now in the market it is expected, from the stock not being large, will go off. From the probability of a great fall in the price of new, no house will order Provisions. Butters are heavy. Bacon, 625.-dull. ASIII:S.-By public sale last week, Ist Pearls 28s. 6d.; second, 265.; lit Pots, 255. 6d. a 265. It is believed that nearly the whole was taken in at the above prices. COCOA.-By public said last week, 230 bags Brazil Cocoa sold ; the good quality 425. and 425. 6d. FRUIT.-The first arrival of New Fruit at public sale on Friday :-Muscatel Raisins, in bunches, 1,500 boies, 5/. 10s. a 5/. 125.; 620 half ditto, ditto, 6/. 10s. a 61. 135.; 906 qua r t er di t t o , di tto , 71. 2 s. a 71. 56.; 164 boxes Jordan Almo n d s , 50 h a lf di tto , di tto, 1 0 / .105.; 300 jars Grapes, 215.-taken in. SPIcEs.-Spices continue heavy, and at rather lower prices ; the best Nutmegs were forced off last week at 3s. 10d. ; for the same quality 4s. has since been realised. Barbadoes Ginger.-By public sale last week a large par cel 565. a 61s. At a late hour to-day a l arge parce l o f h a lf heavy Pepper was sold at 41d. INDIGO.-The demand for Indigo continues general ; parcel of Oude bought early last week has been re-sold at a considerable advance, reported about 3d. per,lb.• Toucco.-The limited demand for Tobacco for export and by the trade has been completely suspended, by the declaration of a large parcel above 1,100 Mids., about one half of the stock of a holder, which is now forced into the Market by commercial embarrassments; it is to be pc ker9torily sold on the 25th inst. in Holland. HUM, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS..-.The Rum Market has rather improved. Leewards, 5 over, have been sold at 2s. 5d., and the stock of Leewards is in so few hands, wouldthat if risea riy r r o e p v i ivlt (ll a y in Jamaica, ro l a t i r t. e was 30 over, to h a k av e opla ce,sold a t t h e prices 3cJd 33 and 34 over, 3s. 7d, and 3s. Bd. ' • Brandy is heavy and rather lowe r ; G eneva unvar i e d. The holders are san guinetha than last o f higher year. I p v r i e c e h s o , v as e h t e h a e r d stock ofno is s B a , l ( e N s )O t o- ca d s a k y s ; less r 30 over, 3s. 6d. has been. offered; 70 to 80 punchs. Ja maica, 21 over, sold at Ss. Be ß ng l al CE. W - h il te i Rice, Patna nx t u h i t d: o l re s r s too . a n 1 i , 86.7:d!ags good or TRADE . —On this subject our inform- Manufactured b tl l i e Ough it cannot be STA.TE tion from every q uartera re o i s t the 1 y r? s u e r , a goods, generalli, said that the a vance in price is suffi cient to warrant much confidenc e in a continued d em and. A consi derable number of additional hands ha ve been t a ken on by some of our first-rate houses th is week an cl sever al mills, which were recently - time, are now in full operation.ping at only half 'fins augurs well for the future; but we seriously h that our leading manufacturers will be cautious ope how they again over stock the market. One great cause of the stagnation and ruin was undoubtedl y over production. The latest bulletin from the Sout h on the subject of trade, we rejoice to see is still more f avoura bl e than our own. —lnverness Courier. Our linen market to-day was much brisker than for some weeks, but not the least improvement in prices. —Drogheda Journal. MIGRATION OF SWALLOWS. (From the Sheffield Mercury.) It is a feet, which has not been 'satisfactorily accounted for by ornithologists, that the number of swallows which visit this island are not near so numerous as they formerly were; and this is the case, not only in• this neighbourhood, but throughout the country.. The little that is, satisfac torily known concerning the parts to which they emigrate, and the many.staternents respecting their annual migra tion, not only serves to show that something remains to be discovered respecting these interesting miters, but per haps prevents us from ascertaining the causes of the de crease in their numbers. In the month of September, 1815, great numbers of these birds congregated near Bo therhatn, previous to their departure for a more genial cli mate. Their appearance was very extraordinary, and at tracted much attention. We extract some account of this vast assemblage of the feathered race, from an elegantly written little work, published on the occasion, by the Rev. Thomas Rlackley, vicar of Rotherham, containing "Obser vations and Reflections" on this circumstance " Early in the month of September, 1815, that beau tiful and social tribe of the fenthered race began to as semble in the neighbourhood of Rotberam, at the 'Willow gtiroonuitio a d, ne a r warmer the Glass-house, and th eir se,prepara preparato r y wereriytoetheir m daily augmented, until they became a vast flock, which no man could easily number—thousands upon thousands, tens of thousands, and myriads—so great, indeed, that the spec tator would almost have concluded that the whole of the swallow race were there collected in one huge host. It was their manner, while there, to rise from the willows in the morning, a little before six o'clock, when their thick columns literally darkened the sky. Their divisions were formed into four, five, and sometimes into six grand wings , each of these filing off, and taking a diff eren t route ---o east, another west, another south, and so on ; as if not only to be equally dispersed throughout the country, to provide food for their numerous troops; but also to collect with them whatever of their fellows, or straggling P arti "' might be still left behind. . Just before the respective columns erase, a few birds might be observed first to nva' don at different points, darting through their massy raki, , these appeared like o ffi cers giving the *bid of com mon ' their station, and continued coining In the evening, about five o'clock, they to return W until nearly dark. It was here that you. might see then' go through their various aerial evolutions, - in many . 4 an tive ring and airy gambol-:strengthening their pinions..c j ourney ; these playful feats for their long. etherial ; contentment and cheerfulness reigned in every breast, VMS expressed in their evening song by a thousand liedeliiis, ing twitters from their little throats, as they clit „. t ii i g htly frolicked in the last beams of the setting sins 1~ of skimmed the surface of the in, from all quarters, glassy Pool. those that had already gained the rtiar of the murmur of a distant waterfall, or the dying treating billow on the sea beach. ad to, ven " The verdant enamel of .summer had afro the place to the warm and mellow tints of autumn, and bile the leaves were now fast falling from their branches, Aden naked tops of many of the trees appeared-4c rs sheaves were safely lodged in the barns, and 0, _ !c . : l n d had, for this year, shouted their harvest home -u m o if e h e misty mornings now succeeded, the certain preogr oo d by willows sound approach of winter. These omens were oade rs ainu ip on the swallows as the route for their march; actor broke the morning of the 7th of October, their mightl'at, sad, up their encampment, debouched from their re"‘", then &- rising, covered the Heavens with their legions; t"e rected by an unerring guide, took their trackless wal'oir the morning of their going, when they ascended It em d i f ids temporary abode, they did not, as they had wont tool°, , but into different columns, and take each a different rou t ! s aid went off in one vast body, bearing to the south. I t ' s ,,isd that they would have gone sooner, but for a contrstY which had some time prevailed: th a t o n t h e d a y, bc f l y -e - took their departure, the wind go t round, and the ;1,, j)4d :le able breeze was immediately em br ace d by them. On day of their flight, th e y l e f t b e hind t h em about a IntlP:h,, of their comnions ; whether th e y w ere shunbere o In o r camp, and s o had missed the going of their troops'. Whether they were left as th e rear guard, it is 11° ort e to ascertain ; they remained, however, till the next d e nt ing, when the greater part of them mounted on OW o ' o pinions, to follow, as it should seem, the celestial I t s of their dep a rt e d legions. After these, a few lit"'"'„, 'to only remained ; these may be the sick or too Yal7(set attempt so great an expedition ; whether this vela i, f tbel or not, they did not remain after the next (LT- ac e Of did not follow their army, yet the dreary sPP7 - i r kin* their depopulated camp, and their affection for tDelore dred, might influence them to attempt it, or to eiP warmer and a safer retreat." MEETINGS OF CREDITO. LONDON DIARY, FRIDAY, OCT. 6 . 0. (At the Court of Conunissioners.) 11 S. Abbott, Old Kent-road, coach-maker .............•••'.:, ., t t o A. Anderson, F'hilpot•lane i merchant ................... 10 T. and T. R. Andrews, Tavistock-place, coal-inerchan" I° L. Bire, Pinner's-court, Broad -street, merchant ... • .... 11 W. J. King, Battersea, turpentine-merchant ........ S. Lakeman, Dartmouth, maltster.. .................. • . ' .... 1 1 Lovin and Josephs, Mansell-street, merchaas ..... • ........ 0 A. Peowrie, Middle.row, straw-hat-tuslitu" .. 19 J. Tyrrell, Stamford-street and Mitcham, dyer ........... R.Warner, Cockspur-street, dresaing-case-makr' .... COUNTRY DIARY, 'FRIDAY, ~.,,v . Oath • J. Backhouae, jun. Frome Selwo o d t the . • Bremner and Co. Manchester—Star, Alanchoiter ••• . ... 4 J. Cook, Sheffield—Tontine; Sheffield ....................... • ... 11 I W. Decoy , Lancaster—King's Arms, I.snesal .... ..• • F. Featherstone, Liverpool—George, .............. T. and E. Frost, She ffi eld—Tsmtine, Shef fi e'" .• ................ I° l Gorton and Co., Tottington—Star, Manchester . ..... W. Grayburn, Nottingham—Punch -boys], Nottingul .. ; . It R. il°ll W e s Hahergham Eaves--8011, Burnlel ................ „II Holmes and Edwards, Derby-.... Kines Hea d. perky .. 9 J. Lowe, Manchester—king's Arms, - Manchester ..... .. 1 1 an oor•••' i t T. T. J. E. and W. Mare, Plymouth—Bohai, • .. • i t W. Martin, Runcorn—Star, Manchester •.. ..... • ... ........ .. 9 Naylor and Ellis, Darton—Rose, Huddersfield ... . ' ..... „. G. Paltreylnan, Crag— White's, Dinnehester ................ R. Pearson, Rotherham—Tontine, Sheffie ld ..... ...... 5 W . Phelps , Relbroughton Littleton Anne, Rag• e r , . Roscoe and Co. Liverpool—George, Liverpool •• .... c i • .„.. - W. and J. Sett, Wakefield—Court-house, VVitkefiel .... .. W. Seagrove, Portaea—White H a rt, Bath .......................... J. Spencer, Burnley—Thorn, Burnley .................... IS J. Tetley, Ilirstall—Sessioos-house , Wakefi eld ............. W. Walker, Rochdale--Wellington, Rochda le. ...... ........... I S B. and H. Wild, S at i t H e worth,—Whites , Atanc` l "r t ..• R. Wright, jun. Stockport--Bulkeley Arms, Stoe xjßloi:rp:Tt:afhplairi—'----..."-Esea.rteciikr.eisilofof tipop7if:fgoTrtif'ihoe'en'sosl.-c're,tort?f,,,.....":._:totrti ----' o — n — t: ".------"**----- e 25th ult., .."-- er s t: S t ''' . cal unanaeu o (4.:4, t_i gi e. o .:.;ianyte.. li t tßegui li t i rsed e he, n eoc 3 2E l f o l6Lo T sciat t tdti t h4l.ren n ,dd u g e naol l aia : Clg o ia;h f ei M prt i aoe s t i t l .tap ri rhij scin de y o . ostr o cie.) e . fic k tn . i . h `g burar tree tsope, t o. , T i o eo irtt ß u he im evr : .: l l : :: : :::::::: Stacey Grimaldi, ELI., of a son. ,_, 0, Pie s ' B..N n the 28th ult., at Li ver p o ,l, the lady of airstlion 'MARRIED. ~,, i, Pu b " ()a the 30t It h it--. , by er e eLd licence, at Christ Chure..l pre b l e lt e n r i " il e r roI 8 t . Michael's Dublin And Rector of ixreneto_streot. fil t . due_buildings , lialb° rl4 141 j'a7..et. _ __ 12__:__„....______,_.--- ~.;,,, . o eilt On the 3d inst., James Guilltmard, E6q. p of t he '''' aged 78. beth(o)nnFthtteh:fidwii...ifict.t.o:fiinjite:hl:iisha rimo:::dlei,ni:F.A:q.Ci‘laprili:m'oCii<ngun:r;:gliiiit:e: of James Wilkinson, Esq., of Ms.ida-hill, in her etd rat' Printed and Published by 74. --- YOUNG, at the SE* 0111‘91' No. 113, Stoood.